The results show that .Com, .Org and New gTLDs are getting relatively more inquiries compared to the portfolio percentages. New gTLDs are getting 15% of the inquiries but only represent 7% of my domains.

I would think that all in all my .com portfolio as a whole is of lower quality compared to the other TLDs in my portfolio. That is compared to other .com domains. It is not that I think that my .com domains are worth less.

Of course .com domains have higher sales prices than New gTLDs but contrary to what many people think, New gTLDs do get inquiries. But most of the New gTLDs I own are of higher quality so that might skew the results a little.

The inquiry percentages are almost the same to my portfolio TLD percentages in the case of .net, .biz and .gr.

About Konstantinos Zournas

Konstantinos studied Computer Engineering and Computer Science in London and lives in Athens, Greece. He works on domain names, websites and software development. Has been online since 1995 & domaining since 2002.

I can’t imagine who is inquiring about .info and .biz domains unless they are numerics or LL type domains. I dropped my last .BIZ (great keyword but horrible extension) a couple months ago. I have never sold a .info

The statistical confidence is lowest (i.e. margin of error is widest) for .NET because your sample size is only a small number of domains.

We can’t, of course, assume that the quality of domain name choices is uniform across all TLDs in your portfolio. What I mean is that you might have picked better names in nTLDs recently than you did in .BIZ years ago. Fruits of experience. Or (one might argue) your instincts for picking .ORG are better than for .US. Not saying that’s so. Just pointing out there won’t be uniform quality of strings across all TLDs in any portfolio (or group of portfolios).

I’m assuming all domains were owned for 100% of the period covered. If you added domains midway through, then they weren’t around to get inquiries the whole time. And that might disrupt the numbers.

Also, I notice a higher number of inquiries shortly after acquisitions. That might play a role. Not to mention many other factors.

I added a table with the figure you are asking.
I don’t have many .net so the sample is not good.

As I said the quality is not the same. .Com is of lower quality in total. (I have many 1-word domains but also many domains that will never sell…)
.Org, .info, .biz and .us are mostly 1-word domains and 3 letter domains.
.Gr and New gTLDs have probably better quality.

Yes, there was no change in the portfolio in the period I tested. And almost no domains added in the past 3 months before the test.

Thanks for sharing. It would be interesting to see if the larger market produced similar results. Of course results can be different based on many factors however, my take away from this snapshot of market queries is this, quality new tld’s are returning solid queries at least as well as an average .com portfolio in this sample. As China marches on to be the #1 consumer market for the best quality across the board ( that makes sense to their investment culture ), all that will be left is average .com and other limited use legacy inventory. Good news for average .com’s and quality new tld’s.
Global investors of quality .com’s are going to find it much more difficult to navigate a market that has inventory control that has significant language barriers, strict governmental controls, and a fraud rate higher than any other market place. And as a result,
A significantly higher number of average investors and end users globally will gravitate to an easier more secure, more affordable alternative at least until the new #1 market makes access seamless and secure with the rest of the world markets. Good news for average .com’s and new tld’s.

To be fair with the data, I have only one dot me…
as per dot guide, yes I think they are fantastic but I’m biased naturally.
I’d be happy to share the names but not sure if you want that in the comments.
Looking forward to see more people sharing such data.